Update From the Dating Front
So my sister's next door neighbour wanted to set me up with a guy - let's call him Jonny - and he called me a couple of months ago, from Liverpool. He sounded cool, actually - we knew a bunch of the same people, he used to be really good mates with my cousin. It was easy, laid back conversation and we made each other laugh, which is generally a good sign on a if-you-don't-laugh-you'll-cry basis. I couldn't make the dates he was in London, and he called a few weeks later and I still couldn't meet up with him, as it was the Jewish cheesecake eating festival.
Then I didn't hear from him for a while. I think I left one message, mostly because my sister/mother kept asking "did he call? Did he call yet?" in a rather Jackie Mason-esque fashion. I never heard back; figured he'd lost interest, or met someone else, or had been entirely a figment of my imagination, or something.
Today I find out from my sister via her neighbour via his mum via him - can you believe we're all over thirty? - that I scared him off. Me? Scary? I'm a pussycat, I tell ya. Apparently, I sounded "narked" that he couldn't make any of the dates I suggested. And he apparently wants to take me to his nephew's Barmitzvah in August.
Me: But I've never met him, how can I go to a Barmitzvah with him?
My sister: See, it's that attitude he's talking about
Me: What attitude?
My sister: Have you been watching Would Like to Meet? You have to be soft and gentle and girly
Me: Like a deodorant?
My sister: I know you. You can't sound narked till you know someone. And it said on the programme that if they like football, you should just feign interest
Me: So I should pretend to be someone I'm not?
My sister: No, just be more laid back. And if he calls you, be really pleased to hear from him
Me: But I would be pleased to hear from him. I thought he wasn't interested in me
My sister: Well he is. The story I heard is that you got on really well on the phone and then you got narked
Me: Didn't
My sister: Did
Me: OK, that's not what I was trying to do
My sister: You left a message on his answerphone
Me: I did?
Apparently his mother heard the message and she understands why he's scared to call me. People all over the North of England are evaluating my telephone technique. Bugger.
Now he's going to call me and I have to act all surprised.
Here's what I think; he sounds like a nice bloke, but if he's scared of me now, how the hell's he going to handle me in real life? And why's his mother listening to his answerphone messages? We should be told.
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